works to end slavery

fights for equal rights

writes about his own life

takes a job in the government

It told of the horrors of slavery.

It gave names of his former owners.

It described how he had become free.

It told about the battles of the Civil

War.

He wanted to help free enslaved

people there.

He had always dreamed of traveling

the world.

He had escaped slavery and was afraid

of being captured.

He wanted to see what it would be like

to live without slavery.

John Brown

Harriet Tubman

Sojourner Truth

William Lloyd Garrison

to ask for a job in the government

to convince him to end the Civil War

to ask for equal pay for Black soldiers

to share information about life as a

slave